my happiness is the colour green

Can we just talk about Elrond for a second

otaachimow:

can we just talk about how he was only two years old when his father left and then he was only six his home was attacked by Maedhros and Maglor because his mother had the Silmaril

can we talk about how Elrond’s mother almost died during the battle and jumped off a cliff into the ocean and then she and her husband sailed to Valinor to plead for help and thanks to them the Valar came to Middle-Earth to destroy Morgoth and the Half-Elven got to choose their fate

can we talk about how Maedhros and Maglor felt so bad about what they’d done that they raised Elrond and his brother like their own children but Maedhros ended up killing himself anyway and Maglor left in a great depression and wandered the shores forevermore singing of the lost Silmarilli

can we talk about how Elrond’s father would have rather been mortal but chose immortality for his wife and then Elrond’s brother Elros decided to become mortal and Elrond watched his descendants fall to selfish impulse and weakness and how he watched Isildur fail to destroy evil when he had the chance but he still stayed in Middle Earth to help the people living there

can we talk about how his wife was nearly killed and despite him healing her she leaves him to sail across the Sea and he can’t see her again until he too sails away, and then his daughter tells him she’s going to become mortal for her love, who happens to be a descendant of Isildur and Elros, and Elrond is never going to see her again

can we talk about how Elrond’s father became a freaking star in the night sky

can we talk about the fact that Bilbo had the nerve to write mediocre poetry about all of this and sing it in Elrond’s own house and Elrond apparently just found it kind of amusing

(Source: sofriel, via mooseliciious)

Can we just talk about Elrond for a second

otaachimow:

can we just talk about how he was only two years old when his father left and then he was only six his home was attacked by Maedhros and Maglor because his mother had the Silmaril

can we talk about how Elrond’s mother almost died during the battle and jumped off a cliff into the ocean and then she and her husband sailed to Valinor to plead for help and thanks to them the Valar came to Middle-Earth to destroy Morgoth and the Half-Elven got to choose their fate

can we talk about how Maedhros and Maglor felt so bad about what they’d done that they raised Elrond and his brother like their own children but Maedhros ended up killing himself anyway and Maglor left in a great depression and wandered the shores forevermore singing of the lost Silmarilli

can we talk about how Elrond’s father would have rather been mortal but chose immortality for his wife and then Elrond’s brother Elros decided to become mortal and Elrond watched his descendants fall to selfish impulse and weakness and how he watched Isildur fail to destroy evil when he had the chance but he still stayed in Middle Earth to help the people living there

can we talk about how his wife was nearly killed and despite him healing her she leaves him to sail across the Sea and he can’t see her again until he too sails away, and then his daughter tells him she’s going to become mortal for her love, who happens to be a descendant of Isildur and Elros, and Elrond is never going to see her again

can we talk about how Elrond’s father became a freaking star in the night sky

can we talk about the fact that Bilbo had the nerve to write mediocre poetry about all of this and sing it in Elrond’s own house and Elrond apparently just found it kind of amusing

(Source: sofriel, via mooseliciious)

veliseraptor:

zaataronpita replied to your post: So, just curious…how do you feel about…

In a lot of canon he’s Orodreth’s.

I’m not sure I like that either though. 

decisions decisions

I am firmly devoted to him being Fingon’s son since “the dying in a badass way yet ultimately doing nothing for the cause” gene runs in male finweans apparently

I get around the problem of Gil’s mother by making her Sindar and the most lesbian lesbian to ever lesbian. I’m pretty sure that between Gil’s mother, her cough closest companion cough, and Fingon and Maedhros most of the noldor think it’s a miracle that he was ever born

veliseraptor:

lyncorbray replied to your post: zaataronpita replied to your post: So, just…

gilly was actually a pretender from the falas who sometimes claimed to be orodreth’s kid, sometimes fingon’s, but never got his story straight. the noldor were too preoccupied with war things to notice or care. it’s a sindar conspiracy.

so I am told that final word was he’s Orodreth’s kid but I…am cackling too hard at this not to post it

Gil you sneaky motherfucker

this makes a disturbing amount of sense

those teleri, man, they were playing the long game to win all along

veliseraptor:

a masterpost (mostly for my own reference) of my semi-depressing celegorm headcanons

ranging in seriousness/coherency

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• here (in the tags)
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why did i read this right before bed

what about an intro post maybe

So wow my followers have expanded to people I do not know from lj. So hi! thanks for visiting!

I’m El. I’m 24, Australian and work in a gold mine. I am a geologist and as such this tumblr will sometimes have rocks and frequently have really bad puns. Tolkien is my main fandom and I play around in others, but I keep coming back to the Silm. As you can see from my last two posts I treat the source material incredibly seriously cough cough.

If you feel like it, my most useful tags are:

the silm - rather obvious

finweans just wanna have fun - for our favourite kinslaying backstabbing cousinsnogging family

really homicidal tullys - for the Feanorians

sindariffic it’s not all about the noldor - for the Sindar and other non-noldor elves

Also if you feel like slightly more structured Silm silliness I have just moved two of my old fics to AO3 (as in, ancient. As in, 2007.) and they may be relevant to your interests:

A Common Enemy. Fingolfin, recently come to Mandos, seeks out his half-brother for explanations of various issues in the house of Finwë. In short: it’s all Finarfin’s fault.

The Darkening of Valinor. Yavanna is distraught, Manwë has a headache, Fëanor tries to fix things and Vána has a speaking part. A slightly different story of how the Two Trees were destroyed, and why the Noldor left Valinor.

PEACE OUT Y’ALL